It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power.
That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.
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